All Star Game

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, Malike said:

I think it had to do with the deferrals too. The Dodgers are likely going to net a billion dollars by the time it's all said and done. Going off memory, though.

Deferrals were Ohtani's idea.

[Jagwar]

3 minutes ago, O's84 said:

403 Errors strike again.

Frustrating for sure

[Malike]

1 minute ago, Moose Milligan said:

He would say that. Whether he could have done that or not, I’m not sure. 

I don’t think Boras is the devil like some make him to be, but I think that comment is pretty tacky though. 

Apparently they are easily getting 50+ million a year just in advertisements.

[Jagwar]

Just now, Can_of_corn said:

Deferrals were Ohtani's idea.

Time value of money or not... That lump sum payment is going to be painful

[WillyM]

Seems to me there used to be an All-Star Game rule that, barring injury, the starting players, other than pitchers, had to play the first three innings.

So how come they pinch-hit for Alvarez in the third inning?

[Malike]

2 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Deferrals were Ohtani's idea.

Yeah, he wanted to be an LAD and not cripple them from keeping stars around him. Smart for the Dodgers, they basically got him for free.

[Jagwar]

Just now, WillyM said:

Seems to me there used to be an All-Star Game rule that, barring injury, the starting players, other than pitchers, had to play the first three innings.

So how come they pinch-hit for Alvarez in the third inning?

The 1980s called. They rejected your observation. 

[Malike]

Just now, WillyM said:

Seems to me there used to be an All-Star Game rule that, barring injury, the starting players, other than pitchers, had to play the first three innings.

So how come they pinch-hit for Alvarez in the third inning?

30 players on each side now. Need to get them all an AB or whatever.

[Moose Milligan]

2 minutes ago, Malike said:

Apparently they are easily getting 50+ million a year just in advertisements.

I believe that. 

[Can_of_corn]

3 minutes ago, Jagwar said:

Time value of money or not... That lump sum payment is going to be painful

I think the Dodgers turn a profit off the contract.

[Malike]

Lets see how the Adley/Crochet battery will look like for the rest of the year. 

[Moose Milligan]

Fun Christian Yelich fact, he’s been in the majors for 12 years and still looks 12 years old. 

[Malike]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

I think the Dodgers turn a profit off the contract.

One rival agent offered up a jaw-dropping estimate.

“This may be close to an $800 million to $1 billion gain for the Dodgers over a decade,” the agent said, noting that if the team were to simply take the $680 million in deferrals and invest it — say, with an asset management firm like Guggenheim Partners, which is run by Dodgers owner Mark Walter — then the money could more than double in a decade’s time.

“They may be able to make $1 billion extra,” the agent reiterate

[O's84]

And now his head is in a freezer somewhere.

[Jagwar]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

I think the Dodgers turn a profit off the contract.

Barely at best. He's a TJ surgery away from being a bat only player